Epidermal growth factor receptors: Status and effect on breast cancer patients

Anticancer Research

Volumn 17, Issue 4 B, 1997, Pages 3107-3110

  Mansour, O A ^a   Zekri, A R ^b   Harvey, Jeanne ^c   El Ahmady, O ^a,d  

^a AL AZHAR UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c Ciba Corning Diagnostics   (United States)

^d NONE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Epidermal growth; Factor receptor

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; BREAST CANCER; BREAST DISEASE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER STAGING; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030846115     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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